Investigation into the research of Milena Penkowa - Nyheder

However during the Panel’s meeting with Milena Penkowa 12 April, she
informed the Panel that she has kept folders containing copies of all receipts for her
purchases and other expenses, including receipts for animals purchased. During a visit to the
archive 20 April, the Secretariat thus found those folders and copied all the present receipts
for animals purchased in the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, including some receipts for animals
immunised, and strains maintained, at other labs than Panum (in Denmark and Spain).
Annex 3.2.7.6 reports on the found animal invoices and the study of those.
The result of the study is that according to the invoices, mainly mice and only 4
rats, have been purchased by Milena Penkowa in 2000-2002.
Furthermore, all the found invoices for housing, maintenance and/or
immunisations at other labs than Panum (in Spain and Denmark) are for housing,
maintenance and/or immunisations of mice, cf. the annex.
3.2.5 Found information on Milena Penkowa’s employment responsibilities
and group members
Information on Milena Penkowa’s job responsibilities and group members has been
obtained from SUND’s secretariat and the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology.
It is described in annex 3.2.9.
3.3 The Panel’s meetings with key-persons
During its meeting at Panum 11-13 April, the Panel met with the following key-persons and
obtained supplementary information to the found documentation:
- Lab technicians Hanne Hadberg and Pernille Froh
- Associate professor Jørgen Kurtzhals, co-author of 4 papers with Milena Penkowa
- Professor Marianne Juhler, co-author of 1 paper with Milena Penkowa
- Dean, Professor Ulla Wewer and Head of Department of Cellular and Molecular
Medicine, Professor Ole William Petersen
- Prorector Thomas Bjørnholm
- Head of Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Professor Albert Gjedde
(SKYPE meeting)
- Milena Penkowa.
Associate Professor Jørgen Kurtzhals and Professor Marianne Juhler were invited on request
from Milena Penkowa. None of the co-authorships of Jørgen Kurtzhals or Marianne Juhler
are among the papers selected by the Panel. Furthermore, the Panel had invited Lab
technician Magdalena Kus, Professor Agnete Larsen and Senior researcher Meredin
Stoltenberg on request from Milena Penkowa. These three persons were not able to meet
the Panel 12 April, though.
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